View full sizeAP Photo | Detroit NewsMichigan Gov. Rick Snyder named Roy S. Roberts, right, a former vice president of General Motors, as the next emergency manager of the troubled Detroit Public Schools during a press conference Wednesday May 4, 2011 at Cadillac Place in Detroit.

As the majority of school districts in Michigan celebrate modest achievements on the Michigan Merit Exam; Detroit Public Schools won’t be popping open any bottles of bubbly anytime soon.

In every subject area on the exam, the gap between 11th graders in Detroit's district and the rest of the state has grown in the last five years, reports show.

In Detroit, 4,161 students were tested and less than 1 percent of 11th graders were in advanced categories for math, reading, science, social studies and writing.

The data released Tuesday also shows no more than 33 percent of students met or exceeded the state’s standards in any given category. Math was the district’s worst category with less than 600 students making passing grades. The best was reading, which 32.6 percent of students passed the test.

June 29, The Detroit News: The news also is grim for other predominantly poor districts in Metro Detroit, including Ecorse, River Rouge, Inkster and Pontiac, where two-thirds to 90 percent of the students are eligible for free and reduced lunches.

In all of those districts, students who took the MME this spring were well below state averages in math, reading, social studies, writing and science. In Ecorse, just one of the district's 81 juniors was considered proficient in writing and math.

Former DPS Emergency Manager Robert Bobb set a goal of having all of the district's students pass the five merit exams

"The scores we are seeing today are intolerably low, which is even more evidence that the current system is broken," Roy Roberts, the district's new emergency manager, said in a statement to the Detorit News. "We all need to recognize that change is absolutely necessary for the worst-performing schools, which is why we are working with the governor to create the new statewide Education Achievement System."